17.03.2005 11:45

VMware GSX Server 3.1 and Linux Kernel 2.6.11.4

VMware GSX server is the next thing, that doesn't work with 2.6.11 kernels.
The "problem" is, that the vmnet module depends on an exported symbol
called "skb_copy_datagram", which has been removed in 2.6.11. In fact,
skb_copy_datagram was only a global wrapper function which built an iovec struct of the given buffer and called skb_copy_datagram_iovec. The change is listed in the Changelog of 2.6.11: